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| Tonight’s Premieres ID: Shattered at 10p Tonight’s Finales CNBC: Jay Leno’s Garage at 10p Great American Country: Extreme RVs at 9p HGTV: Property Brothers at 9p PBS: Wild Metropolis at 10p OWN: David Makes Man at 9p VH1: Black Ink Crew: Compton at 10p IN THE NEWS Felicity Huffman is behind bars, reporting to the Bureau of Prisons to serve her sentence in the college bribery scheme just more than a week before she was required to report in. “Felicity Huffman reported today for sentencing to the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, CA,” said a rep for Huffman in a statement. “Ms. Huffman is prepared to serve the term of imprisonment Judge Talwani ordered as one part of the punishment she imposed for Ms. Huffman’s actions.” Huffman plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud in May. They go together. HBO Max ordered Grease: Rydell High, a musical series inspired by the 1978 film Grease. Set in the ‘50s in and around the world of Rydell High, show reimagines the hit movie with some of its iconic characters and some new faces. HBO Max also scored rights to stream The West Wing when the service launches next year. Top-notch, incomparable, creme de la creme. Cynopsis is excited to celebrate the absolute best in media campaigns and content at the inaugural Cynopsis Best Of The Best Awards Gala, taking place in February in NYC. Award entries will be open until 10/23, so get started here. |
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| PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT Drama series The Most Fun We Ever Had is in development at HBO. From Amy Adams and Stacy O’Neil’s Bond Group Entertainment and Laura Dern and Jayme Lemons’ Jaywalker Pictures, series is based on Claire Lombardo’s bestselling novel, which follows four sisters who each are struggling to exist in the shadow of their parents’ idyllic marriage. Lombardo will pen the adaptation and co-exec produce. Who do you think came out on top at last night’s Democratic debate? Let us know here: https://poll.tryinteract.com/#/5da5bfeaa8d32e0014d7408c CBS gave a put pilot commitment to an untitled comedy series from former NBA star/actor/businessman Rick Fox, creator Dan Kopelman, and producers Kapital Entertainment and Warner Bros. TV. Penned by Kopelman and inspired by Fox’s real-life experience, series follows a recently retired pro basketball star who attempts to reconnect with his estranged son by buying an esports franchise. Apple TV renewed Ron Moore’s space-race drama For All Mankind ahead of its series debut November 1. Also reportedly renewed or in the process of being renewed for a second season are upcoming Apple series See, Dickinson, Little America and Home Before Dark, reports Deadline. Nick Jonas is officially in the production business. Dash & Lily, an eight-ep holiday romantic comedy, is in production at Netflix from Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps and Jonas’ new shingle Image 32, based on the YA book series. Action centers on a whirlwind holiday romance and is toplined by Austin Abrams (Euphoria, This Is Us) and Midori Francis (Good Boys). Adventure series The Outpost will get a third season, slated to drop in summer 2020 on The CW. Series follows the lone survivor of a race called the “Blackbloods.” RT Features, the production house behind Ad Astra and Call Me By Your Name, is launching indie RT Television in Brazil, in partnership with Anonymous Content and CAA. TV division, headed by RT Features TV chief Barbara Teixiera, will be based in Sao Paulo, and will develop premium series for the local market and Latin America. Digital media’s elite will gather for The 7th Annual Cynopsis Digital Awards Breakfast, November 8 in NYC. This event has sold out quickly in previous years, so if you haven’t already reserved your spot, click here to register the team. Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment launched Landmark Studio Group in partnership with entertainment industry veteran David Ozer as CEO. Cole Strategic Partners has committed funding to Landmark, which will develop, produce, distribute and own all IP it creates. Among projects already in the works are scripted drama The Fix, docuseries The History of Gangster Rap and supernatural horror series Safehaven. Quibi continues to beef up its Daily Essentials programming slate. The Weather Channel will provide exclusive daily weather programming for the short-form service beginning in April 2020, with a mix of national and hyper-localized weather and forecasting stories. Quibi also announced Your Daily Horoscope, an animated horoscope series combining humor and adult animation created by Attn: and exec-produced by Will Arnett and his company Electric Avenue, and Tom Werner. And, mobile meditative experience The Daily Chill will be part of the Quibi slate. All3Media unveiled factual label Angelica Films, to be run by former BBC and Field Day Productions exec Sally Angel. Documentary and factual programming for broadcasters and streaming services are the production focus of the UK production company. Mitre Television and Studio Lambert are jointly producing car competition show Street Car Showdown (working title) for BBC Two. Each week, two rival teams from are challenged to convert two ordinary second-hand cars into souped-up racing machines in 10 days and a limited budget, competing in a series of challenges. Lagardere Studios acquired Spanish company Veranda and is launching production label Cameron’s, dedicated to international programming. Lagardere Studios previously had a minority stake in Veranda and now has picked up the remaining stake from Grupo Good. RETURNING SERIES OWN drama series Ambitions returns for its midseason premiere Tuesday, November 12 at 10p. Series hails from producer Will Packer. All eight eps of the third season of CBS All Access’ original comedy No Activity will be available on the service beginning Thursday, November 21. Season 3 finds detectives Nick Cullen and Judd Tolbeck back in uniform with a revolving door of quirky new partners and even quirkier criminals. COMING UP Netflix dropped its holiday lineup, including films, special eps, themed series and kids programming. Film slate includes Kristin Davis and Rob Lowe starrer Holiday in the Wild (November 1), Let it Snow (November 8), Jason Schwartzman- and JK Simmons-topped comedy Klaus (November 15), previously announced The Knight Before Christmas (November 21), Holiday Rush (November 28) and A Christmas Prince (December 5).The Netflix movies join series including the second season of The Great British Baking Show: Holidays, debuting November 9. 20/20 will present a two-hour special on actress and Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten, who was murdered at age 20 by her estranged husband. Feature, which airs ahead of the 40th anniversary of her death, will debut Friday, October 18 at 9p. Documentary Women of Impact: Changing the World will debut on National Geographic Channel on Saturday, October 26, at 10p. Narrated by Julianna Margulies, special showcases boundary-breaking women whose stories create a portrait of the past, present and future of the distinctly female impact on our world. MTV’s 2019 MTV EMAs performance lineup includes Halsey, Rosalía, show host Becky G, Akon, Ava Max and Mabel. Show airs Sunday, November 3 at 9p CET. The annual Urban One Honors awards show will take place Thursday, December 5, 2019 at MGM National Harbor and air on TV One on January 20, 2020 as a two-hour telecast. Event heralds accomplishments of individuals in entertainment, media, music, fashion, sports, education and the community. TECH TALK She’ll be there for you. Jennifer Aniston has come to the Instagram party, joining the social platform yesterday and posting a Friends reunion photo. Anime hub Crunchyroll and digital publisher Webtoon formed a partnership that will include the creation and development of new animated co-productions. The companies also will collaborate on the distribution, licensing and retail of each new series. Google’s game streaming service Stadia will be available to the public on November 19. Service will stream games directly from the cloud; players will need to buy the Stadia controller and a Chromecast Ultra video streaming adapter, as opposed to a full game console. Google will selling both products as part of the Stadia Founder’s Edition package for $129. Google also intro’d the Nest Mini, a $49 revamped version of its smart speaker. The new $49 Nest Mini speaker packs bigger sound than its Home Mini predecessor and has a built-in machine learning chip, ultrasound for proximity detection and the ability to pair two speakers. It’s goodnight for Google’s Daydream VR platform. The company won’t support the platform in its new Pixel 4 phone. KIDS CORNER Pocket.watch extended its partnership with Hulu to bring season 1 of Hobby Kids Adventures to the platform. New seasons of the studio’s Ryan’s World, EvanTube Ultimate Mishmash and HobbyKids Ultimate Mishmash also are headed to Hulu. The new content will be available on Hulu on Friday, October 18, bringing the total number of pocket.watch-created eps on Hulu to 177. Additionally, Vudu will bring Hobby Kids Adventures and pocket.watch Challenge Squad to its new ad-supported service beginning this week. In related news, pocket.watch greenlit a gaggle of new shows. Twelve-ep animated comedy-mystery series Onyx Monster Mysteries is based on the popular Onyx Kids YouTube channel, with Doreen Spicer-Dannelly (The Proud Family) in as exec producer and showrunner. Also in the works is horror-comedy Zombees, with Beatriz Acevedez and Doug Greiff (co-founders of Mitu) as exec producers; EvanTube's Dollar Toy Squad, created by Matthew Schwartz and Yoram Benz; animated-live action hybrid Do Crew; Jillian's Mystery Craft Box, a 10-ep live-action series featuring exec producer Karina Garcia; and horror anthology series The Claw. Island Of Misfits put in development Farmer Mars (working title), an animated series from Paw Patrol and Bob the Builder creator Keith Chapman. Series, aimed at K3-6, is set on Mars and follows a young Earth boy named Rob who works on a farm operated by an upbeat yet absent-minded owner. Nelvana and Spin Master announced animated action series Bakugan: Battle Planet has been picked up by broadcasters including Netflix in the US and Canada. Nickelodeon International commissioned live action comedy series Goldie’s Oldies (working title). Series, the first original commission made exclusively for Nickelodeon International’s channels outside the US, also marks Viacom International Studios UK’s first foray in scripted comedy. PODCAST POSTS The podcast business just got funnier. Will Ferrell and iHeartMedia partnered to launch Big Money Players Network, a new podcast company focused on scripted and unscripted comedy shows. The network will unveil 10 podcasts during the next two years, produced by Ferrell and iHeartMedia. Second season of Nat Geo podcast Overheard at National Geographic is out. Short-form, fact-based podcast gives listeners an inside look into the company; new season launched with the ep Digging Up Disaster, featuring Nt Geo Explorer Beverly Goodman. CASTING Heather Graham joined the cast of CBS All Access’ adaptation of Stephen King novel The Stand… Tony winner Renee Elise Goldsberry scored a multi-episode arc in CBS’ supernatural drama Evil. ADVERTISING & BRANDS Telemundo revealed the 2019 corporate sponsors for the fifth annual Latin American Music Awards, slated to air Thursday, October 17 at 8p. Boost Mobile, Ford, L’Oreal Paris, State Farm, Verizon and Universal Studios Hollywood join the lineup of first-time brand sponsors for the music special, while Toyota, ULTA Beauty and Xfinity return to the show. Vivendi-owned video platform Dailymotion partnered with RTK, a programmatic infrastructure and ad operations company. RTK will integrate its header bidding solution onto dailymotion.com. Dailymotion’s advertising partners now can seamlessly integrate with RTK’s solution to bid on the platform’s display inventory. TV and film tracking and insights platform TV Time is acquiring NY-based Mediamorph, which powers more than two-thirds of all global digital transactional revenue for the film and TV industries. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Star Trek: Discovery and Man With a Plan are headed to the UK. A new licensing agreement between CBS Studios International and Channel 4 will bring the series across the pond to launch on E4 in 2020. Propagate Content inked local format deals to bring its series Jane The Virgin to Korea, Egypt, Greece, Israel and China. Series wrapped its US run on the CW in late July. |
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| RATINGS The premiere of the new season Telemundo’s superseries El Senor de los Cielos ranked as the top primetime program on Spanish-language television among A18-49 and A18-34, according to Nielsen. In syndication, up against a torrent of televised impeachment-related announcements, many daytime shows got socked with heavy preemptions and struggled against the atypically strong competition in the session ending September 29. Even stronghold Judge Judy (6.0 live plus same day national Nielsen, down 8% from the week before) and Hot Bench (1.8, down 14%) were not immune. Among the freshman talkers The Kelly Clarkson Show (1.2, down 14%) remained the No. 1 new show overall in syndication. Tamron Hall (0.9, steady) stood fast despite multiple breaking news preemptions and tripled the rating of rookie talk rival Mel Robbins (0.3, down 25%). In the courtroom, Jerry Springer’s Judge Jerry (1.0, steady) out-rated the other two frosh court shows combined: Personal Injury Court (0.5, up 25%) and Protection Court (0.3, unchanged). UniMás delivered double-digit week-over-week audience growth during Monday through Friday primetime among total ziewers (+26% to 363,000), A18-49 (+20% to 176,000) and A18-34 (+33% to 80,000), marking the third consecutive week of audience growth. Top 10 Broadcast Programs P2+, Live + SD for the week of October 7, 2019 FOX: Fox + NFLN Thursday Night Football (10/10) 16.26 million NBC: NBC Sunday Night Football (10/13) 14.89 million CBS: 60 Minutes (10/13) 12.41 million NBC: Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick (10/13) 11.54 million CBS: NCIS (10/8) 11.21 million NBC: Football Night America Part 3 (10/13) 9.73 million FOX: Fox + NLFN Thursday Night (Pre-Kick (10/10) 9.34 million CBS: FBI (10/8) 8.70 million NBC: The Voice Tues. (10/8) 8.55 million NBC: Voice (10/7) 8.54 million TV Time’s Binge Report for the Week of October 7 Big Mouth (Netflix) 3.88% Insatiable (Netflix) 3.13% The Hook Up Plan (Netflix) - 3.07% Friends (NBC) - 2.37% Peaky Blinders (BBC One) - 2.24% Brooklyn Nine-Nine (NBC) - 1.94% The Big Bang Theory (CBS) - 1.53% Elite (Netflix) - 1.39% Lucifer (Netflix) - 1.33% Disenchantment (Netflix) - 1.30% Methodology: The weekly Binge Report ranks shows with the most binge sessions. A binge session is when four or more episodes of a show are watched and tracked in our TV Time app within a given day. Top 10 M-F Syndicated strip Series for the week of September 23, 2019 ranked in order by HH Rtg Judge Judy (CTD) 6.0 AA Jeopardy (CTD) 5.9 AA Wheel of Fortune (CTD) 5.6 AA Family Feud (2/T) 5.5 AA The Big Bang Theory (WB) 2.9 AA Entertainment Tonight (CTD) 2.6 AA Inside Edition (CTD) 2.6 AA Dr. Phil (CTD) 2.3 AA Live With Kelly and Ryan (DADT) 2.0 AA Hot Bench (AT) 1.8 AA Last Man Standing (2/T) 1.7 AA Ellen DeGenres (WB) 1.7 AA Top 10 M-F Syndicated strip Series for the week of September 23, 2019 ranked in order by A18-49 Rtg Judge Judy (CTD) 1.2 AA Family Feud (2/T) 1.3 AA Wheel of Fortune (CTD) 1.0 AA Jeopardy (CTD) 0.9 AA The Big Bang Theory (WB) 0.9 AA Modern Family (2/T) 0.8 AA Family Guy (2/T) 0.7 AA Last Man Standing 0.6 Entertainment Tonight (AT) 0.6 AA Live With Kelly and Ryan (DADT) 0.5 AA Inside Edition (CTD) 0.5 AA Late Night Shows Weekly Average Ratings Week of October 7, 2019 ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live 1.76 million total viewers; .32/2 A18-49 CBS: The Late Show With Stephen Colbert 2.99 million total viewers; .19/2 A18-49 NBC: Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 1.85 million total viewers .38/3 A18-49 Basic Cable Top 5 – Primetime (P2+) ratings for the week of October 7, 2019 ESPN: 3.09 million FNC: 2.81 million FOX Sports: 2.36 million TBS: 2.08 million MSNBC: 2.06 million *Corresponding Data from Nielsen Media Research Basic Cable Top 5 – Total (P2+) ratings for the week of October 7, 2019 FNC: 1.48 million MSNBC: 1.17 million ESPN: 960,000 TBS: 845,000 CNN: 731,000 *Corresponding Data from Nielsen Media Research Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions): Monday, October 14, 2019 Time period averages Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD ABC: 7.04 million Dancing With the Stars 7.29, The Good Doctor 6.55 NBC: 6.47 million The Voice 7.89, Bluff City Law 3.62 CBS: 5.28 million The Neighborhood 5.34, Bog Hearts Abishola 4.86, All Rise 5.02, Bull 5.73 FOX: 5.00 million 9-1-1 6.38, Prodigal Son 3.61 Univision: 1.12 million Rosa de Guadelupe 1.47, La Usurpadora 1.76, El Dragon 1.14 Telemundo: 1.66 Exatlon 1.52, Final de Paraiso 1.45, Senor de los Cielos 2.00 CW: 0.68 million All American 0.73, Black Lightening 0.63, Monday A18-49 Ratings FOX 1.1/5, NBC 1.1/5, ABC 1.0/5, CBS 0.7/3, TELE .6/2, UNI .5/2, CW 0.2/1 EXECUTIVE MOVES BET Networks promoted P. Sean Gupta to SVP, strategy & business operations. Most recently, Gupta was the co-lead of the exec team that launched the BET+ premium streaming service. Kevin Feige has been promoted to chief creative officer at Marvel. He’ll also continue to serve as president of Marvel Studios. As part of a restructuring, LBI Media appointed Peter Markham as CEO. Markham also will serve on the company’s Board of Directors; he previously served as interim COO. Brian Kei, who’s been serving as LBI CFO, will step in as COO. This Day in History 2008 – The iTunes Store reached 200 billion television episodes sold. Answer to our last trivia question Which two series had the same name – one a short-lived comedy in the ‘90s, and the other a drama that launched seven years later and lasted seven seasons? The Closer. Kudos to: Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA Today's Trivia Question Who moved his House Party franchise from radio to TV in 1952, where it remained for 17 years? (Email trivia@cynopsis.com with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. Unofficial rules: A limit of four correct answers from each time zone will be selected.). |
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| WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 16 ABC: The Goldbergs, Schooled, Modern Family, Single Parents, Stumptown CBS: Survivor, SEAL Team, S.W.A.T. CW: Riverdale, Nancy Drew FOX: The Masked Singer, Almost Family NBC: Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D. PBS: Nature, NOVA, Wild Metropolis Telemundo: Exatlon Estados Unidos, El Final del Paraiso, El Senor de los Cielos Univision: La Rosa de Guadelupe, La Usurpadora, El Dragon |
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